Extra-alarm fire at Buyer's Flea Market in West Humboldt Park

Jose M. Osorio / Chicago Tribune

Margaret Lira, center, hugs Lenny Cross, owner of the Buyer's Flea Market in Chicago's West Humboldt Park neighborhood, after Cross spoke to workers March 9, 2016, after a devastating fire tore through the building housing the market. Margaret and her husband, Martin, had been working at the flea market for 20 years, making and selling homemade snow cones, snacks and sodas. The couple said they lost about $10,000 in items in the fire.

An extra-alarm fire tore through a flea market on the West Side on March 8, 2016, swallowing cars parked on the collapsing roof and sending thick black smoke through Chicago's West Humboldt Park neighborhood.